{"id":9107,"date":"2010-10-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/statements\/iran-resistance\/9107-amess-exposing-irans-chief-liar"},"modified":"2023-01-13T17:04:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T16:04:03","slug":"amess-exposing-irans-chief-liar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/amess-exposing-irans-chief-liar\/","title":{"rendered":"AMESS: Exposing Iran&#8217;s chief liar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"david-amess\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-35998\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/10\/david-amess.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Amess\" width=\"125\" height=\"162\" align=\"right\" \/>Not Ahmadinejad but the opposition should be our partner in \u200eprogress<br \/><\/em><\/strong> \u200e<br \/>The Washington Times &#8211; By David Amess<br \/>Tyrants resort to a Big Lie when they have nothing truthful to say to the world or their people. The theory is that \u200eif you say something outrageous often enough, people will start to believe it.\u200e<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad uttered a brazen Big Lie against the West, suggesting to \u200ethe United Nations that the U.S. government had masterminded the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade \u200eCenter and the Pentagon, resulting in the deaths of thousands.\u200e<\/p>\n<p>That ranks right along with stories that Franklin D. Roosevelt helped plot the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in \u200ean effort to get the United States into World War II on the side of his British friends.\u200e<br \/>As Big Lies go, they don&#8217;t get much bigger.<br \/>\u200e<br \/>But brazen remarks are not anything new for Mr. Ahmadinejad. He began by denying the Holocaust in 2005. \u200eThe next step was denying Israel&#8217;s right to exist, and now he&#8217;s reached the pinnacle &#8211; claiming Sept. 11 could \u200ehave been a U.S. government conspiracy.<br \/>\u200e<br \/>I happened to be in New York at the same time as the Iranian president. I was literally across the street from the \u200eU.N., addressing a major anti-Ahmadinejad rally of thousands of Iranian dissidents &#8211; and discussing another of \u200ethe regime&#8217;s Big Lies.\u200e<\/p>\n<p>In 1980, in the early days of the Iranian Revolution, when faced with growing criticism of rampant torture in \u200eIranian prisons, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini appointed a &#8220;fact-finding commission.&#8221; The commission&#8217;s \u200efindings were very telling. It declared that the opposition &#8211; primarily the People&#8217;s Mujahedeen Organization of \u200eIran (PMOI) &#8211; tortured its own members in order to blame the regime.<br \/>\u200e<br \/>Now fast-forward 30 years. This time Khomeini&#8217;s fervid disciple, Mr. Ahmadinejad, used the same tactic to \u200edescribe Sept. 11.\u200e<\/p>\n<p>Why do despots resort to the Big Lie? To cover up what they don&#8217;t want their own people or the world to \u200eknow. In the present case, Mr. Ahmadinejad is trying to divert attention from what is happening in Iran &#8211; the \u200eopposition is getting stronger and the regime has to resort to ever-tougher suppressive measures to try to keep \u200econtrol.<br \/>\u200e<br \/>That&#8217;s why, just the other day, President Obama signed an executive order imposing sanctions on eight Iranian \u200eofficials determined to be responsible for or complicit in severe human rights abuses in Iran since the presidential \u200eelection last year.\u200e<\/p>\n<p>The executive order puts severe restrictions on these individuals and bars any Americans from engaging in any \u200etransactions with them. Mr. Obama&#8217;s action is a welcome change from the West&#8217;s previously timid response to \u200eactions by Mr. Ahmadinejad and the mullahs who have propped him up.\u200e<\/p>\n<p>The United States keeps insisting that sanctions are hurting the Tehran regime and are the key element in a drive \u200eto change Tehran&#8217;s behavior. In reality, the problem with U.S. policy is that it has failed to factor in the mullahs&#8217; \u200ekey weak point, i.e., the enemy within.\u200e<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian political scene is very dynamic. Iranians showed their outrage last year by pouring into the streets \u200etime after time, crying &#8220;Freedom,&#8221; &#8220;Down with the dictator,&#8221; and &#8220;Down with Ali Khamenei,&#8221; the supreme \u200eleader.\u200e<\/p>\n<p>This also was very evident at the rally outside the U.N. when Mr. Ahmadinejad spoke inside. Thousands of \u200eIranians from all age groups and all strata cried no to Mr. Ahmadinejad, and yes to Rajavi, referring to Maryam \u200eRajavi, the leader of the opposition.<br \/>\u200e<br \/>Iranians called for removal of the PMOI from the State Department&#8217;s list of terrorist organizations. They were \u200ejoined by the former mayor of New York, Rudolph W. Giuliani, and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John \u200eBolton, among others (myself included).\u200e<\/p>\n<p>The lifting of the ban on the opposition is more justified now in light of the fact that on July 16, the Court of \u200eAppeals for the District of Columbia said the decision of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to \u200emaintain the designation of the PMOI violated the group&#8217;s due-process rights. The court cast doubt on the \u200eaccuracy of information used against the PMOI and remanded the case to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham \u200eClinton.\u200e<\/p>\n<p>Removing the terrorist tag would enjoy the backing of Congress. A bipartisan group of more than 80 members \u200eco-sponsored House Resolution 1431, explicitly calling for the delisting of the PMOI, &#8220;thereby denying the \u200eregime the pretext to crack down on dissidents inside Iran.&#8221;\u200e<\/p>\n<p>It is ironic that as Mr. Ahmadinejad keeps lashing out against the very principles of the United States, the U.S. \u200ekeeps the main opposition enchained.<br \/>\u200e<br \/>The time has come for a new Iran policy, with the opposition at its core, instead of further rounds of futile \u200enegotiations. Is there any red line for the West, or is everything open to compromise and negotiation? The next \u200etime Mr. Ahmadinejad challenges Western civilization, and the time after that, his quiver might not be limited to \u200ewords.\u200e<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>David Amess is a British member of Parliament from the Conservative Party and a member of the Parliamentary \u200eCommittee for Iran Freedom.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2010\/oct\/15\/exposing-irans-chief-liar\/\">For full text click here<\/a><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2010\/oct\/15\/exposing-irans-chief-liar\/\">\u200e<br \/><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not Ahmadinejad but the opposition should be our partner in &lrm;progress &lrm;The Washington Times &ndash; By David AmessTyrants resort to a Big Lie when they have nothing truthful to say [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-9107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran-resistance","tag-updated"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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